Steve Tibbetts

Steve Tibbetts Is A Saint Paul-Based American Guitarist Known For An Original Approach To Both Composing And Sound-Forming. He Was Born In Madison Wisconsin In 1954. His First Two Records Were Created When He Was In College. The Second Yr Although Self-Released And Eventually Rereleased By ECM Records Gained A Degree Of Notice Especially From Fans Of The Electric Guitar. That Record Featured Many Overdubs On One Track As Many As 50 Overdubs Creating A Unique Soundscape. Like Some Other Artists Such As Brian Eno Steve Tibbetts Views The Recording Studio As A Tool For Creating Sounds And Often Works And Reworks His Sounds Incorporating Found-Sound Into Finished Musical Tracks Such As The Footsteps In The Track "Running" Found On Safe Journey Or The Chanting Of Nepalese Villagers Found On The Last Tracks Of Big Map Idea . The First Record Tibbetts Created For A Major Label Was Northern Song For ECM Records In 1982. This Was An Attempt To Fit Tibbetts Music Into Manfred Eicher's Style Of Very Rapid Recording. Usually ECM Albums Are Recorded In Just Two To Three Days. However Northern Song Received Scathing Reviews. Perhaps As A Result Tibbetts Went Back To His Previous Method Of Recording Very Slowly Over A Period Of Months Or Longer . His Subsequent Records Gained Better Reviews And Somewhat Unusually For ECM Records Were Among The Only Not Produced By Manfred Eicher. Tibbetts Plays Acoustic And Electric Guitar As Well As The Kalimba. His Musical Compositions Span Several Genres And Styles Perhaps Most Notably Jazz Rock Fusion New Age And World Music. Often More Than One Genre Or Style Is Found In A Single Composition. He Released Five Albums In The 1980s Three In The 1990s And As Of This Writing Two In The 2000s. He Has Also Collaborated With Other Artists Including Norwegian Hardingfele Player Knut Hamre And Tibetan Buddhist Nun Choying Drolma. His Longtime Collaborator Percussionist Marc Anderson Has Appeared On All The Recordings In The Discography Except The Inaugural Steve Tibbetts Album. Tibbetts Makes Liberal Use Of Loops In His Work And A Collection Of Those Loops And Sound Textures Can Be Purchased On A CD-Rom. Tibbetts Essentially Stopped Doing Live Performances Regularly In The Mid-1980s. Steve Tibbetts And Marc Anderson Have Toured On Other Occasions Including A 1988 "YR" Tour A 1991/1992 "Big Map Idea" Tour And Shows With Ani Choying Drolma In 1997 1999 And 2005. Starting In The Late 1980s He Travelled Extensively In Nepal Which Is Where He Met Choying Drolma A Tibetan Buddhist Nun. Their First Collaboration Cho Was Not Intended As A Commercial Record But It Was Released And Gained Some Positive Notice. The Second Project Selwa Was A Far More Carefully Considered Musical Collaboration And It Received Some Very Positive Reviews As An Example Of A Successful Meeting Of Two Very Different Musical Traditions. Discography * Steve Tibbetts Cuneiform 1977 * Yr Frammis 1980—re-Released By ECM/Universal Classics 1988 * Northern Song ECM/Universal Classics 1982 * Safe Journey ECM/Universal Classics 1984 * Exploded View ECM/Universal Classics 1986 * Big Map Idea ECM/Universal Classics 1989 * The Fall Of Us All ECM/Universal Classics 1994 * Cho Hannibal/Rykodisc 1997 With Choying Drolma * Å Hannibal/Rykodisc 1999 With Knut Hamre * A Man About A Horse ECM/Universal Classics 2002 * Selwa Six Degrees Records 2004 With Choying Drolma read less